Washington State Human Rights Commission

Immigrants

Washington State Diversity News and Resources

EPA has added an environmental health page to its Spanish website.

The page, El medio ambiente y su salud, addresses how environmental issues affect Hispanic communities in the United States. In general the website provides Spanish translation of EPA news releases as well as outreach materials such as fact sheets of environmental health hazards.

The website is available at www.epa.gov/espanol.

The environmental health page is found at www.epa.gov/espanol/saludhispana/index.htm

Unity In the Community, the Inland Northwest’s largest multicultural celebration, will be “Connecting Communities” 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Aug. 16, in Riverfront Park near downtown Spokane.

View the full announcement here.

Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises have updated their website.

www.omwbe.wa.gov

The WSHRC is concerned about the chilling effect the raid may have on those who speak out about discrimination.

Read the complete letter from our Executive Director concerning an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation that occurred in Shelton, Washington on May 31, 2007. (can also be downloaded as an MS Word or Adobe Reader document)

In case of a raid- en caso de una redada

Joint Policy - Recommendations for Implementation
The Washington State Human Rights Commission and the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction have long recognized the increasing complexity of assuring equity and excellence in education to all students in our public schools. In order to provide guidance to school districts, these bodies have, since 1966, issued several Joint Policy Statements on Equity in Education. In 1993 a task force was created to revise and update the existing policy statement. The results of that effort were the adoption of a new joint policy on Equity in Education.

In addition to the policy recommendations, the task force suggested strategies for local school districts to consider when implementing the equity policies. It is the goal of the task force that these recommendations create change that will positively affect the quality of the educational environment for all of Washington's students. Further, it is hoped that these ideas will generate additional discussion on ways to address the issue of equity in education at the local level. These task force implementation suggestions have been endorsed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Washington State Human Rights Commission.